Sticking an AirTag on my Kindle just saved me again. If it wasn’t for this I’d have lost it many times by now.
Catholicism, another flank in America's pernicious global influence?
Another interesting piece, though it cements my view that American Catholicism has far more in common with with the evangelical churches of their countrymen than what is understood to be Catholicism in the rest of the world. Another flank in America’s pernicious global influence?
Behind the Catholic Right’s Celebrity-Conversion Industrial Complex - Vanity Fair
Interesting piece on Vance and his antecedents.
Who Owns America? was the Agrarian-Distributists’ last hurrah. The American public — including, ironically, the very farmers and working men that the movement sought to “save” — was simply not attracted to the philosophy.
The Forebears of JD Vance and the New Right - Olivia Paschal in HNN
Worth a watch if you’ve never seen it.
In one of the University College Cork buildings they have a Mac (the same model that my Dad bought for our family and that I used as a kid) on display in a glass case, like it’s some sort of early hominid tool. I’ve rarely felt so old.
Tide players surf the currents
Twenty years of the development of health impact assessment in Australia
A presentation at University College Cork, 17 September 2024
References cited
Community Affairs References Committee (2013) Australia’s domestic response to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health report “Closing the gap within a generation”, Australian Senate: Canberra.
ECHP. (1999). Gothenburg Consensus Paper on Health Impact Assessment: Main concepts and suggested approach.
Haigh, F., Crimeen, A., Green, L., Moeller, H., Conaty, S., Prior, J., & Harris-Roxas, B. (2023). Developing a climate change inequality health impact assessment for health services. Public Health Research and Practice, 33(4). https://doi.org/10.17061/phrp3342336
Harris, P., Harris-Roxas, B., Harris, E., & Kemp, L. (2007). Health Impact Assessment: A practical guide. UNSW and NSW Health. http://www.hiaconnect.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Health_Impact_Assessment_A_Practical_Guide.pdf
Harris-Roxas, B., & Harris, E. (2011). Differing forms, differing purposes: A typology of Health Impact Assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 31(4), 396–403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2010.03.003
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We crave assurance that intimacy can survive independent of convenience. We dream of friendship that is interminable, impervious to the passage of time or changes in geography or individual growth.
Scholarly communication infrastructure has been beyond its breaking point for a while. Generative pre-trained transformers look increasingly like an epistemological omnicidal weapon that we've failed to contain.
Two main risks arise from the increasingly common use of GPT to (mass-)produce fake, scientific publications. First, the abundance of fabricated “studies” seeping into all areas of the research infrastructure threatens to overwhelm the scholarly communication system and jeopardize the integrity of the scientific record. A second risk lies in the increased possibility that convincingly scientific-looking content was in fact deceitfully created with AI tools and is also optimized to be retrieved by publicly available academic search engines, particularly Google Scholar.
Worryingly it is free tools like Google Scholar, and fields like environmental and health sciences that have obvious policy and practice relevance, that seem particularly vulnerable.
A wistful piece of writing. We’re each wealthier than kings of the past but we remain a kind of peasantry in the thrall of distant plutocrats. Unmoored without a sense of place. Indentured to the precarity machine of credit and capitalism.
NaNoWriMo Organizers Said It Was Classist and Ableist to Condemn AI. All Hell Broke Loose
But last Friday, the 25-year-old nonprofit, known as NaNoWriMo for short, shocked many in the writing community when it published a controversial statement detailing its position on AI. In it, NaNoWriMo asserted that the “categorical condemnation” of artificial intelligence has “classist and ableist undertones.”
NaNoWriMo Organizers Said It Was Classist and Ableist to Condemn AI. All Hell Broke Loose - Wired, via @hrb@wandering.shop
Google Scholar is more busted than I thought. Pay for citations schemes exist and may be more widespread than we realise.
A fascinating long read about the origins of Gaia theory, the early influence of systems theory, and NASA and JPL’s sexist culture in the ’60s.
A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair